Today (Saturday) we went to the Chinese "Safeguard Your Mind" Circuit Assembly. We met up with Tim and Jamie and followed them to the Assembly, which was in an auditorium/Gym of a high school about 20-25min from our house. The Assembly was great, although the seats were really hard the atmosphere was wonderful. Even though I really didn't understand anything but a few words here and there, and some of the scriptures. When you are among Jehovah's people you know you are in the right place. I was able to understand a complete thought thanks to what we had learned in school. He was talking about how people are proud to say what nationality they are and how we should be just as proud to say that we are citizens of God's Kingdom. Hannah understood more than she was expecting, she even got one of the jokes that the brother made about how we were going to consider some of Peter's mistakes and that he is in heaven listening right now.
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| Entrance to school where assembly was held |
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| Hard Metal Seats |
The Baptism was really interesting, instead of having a pool like we would normally have they had this tank only big enough for one person and the brother who baptized them actually stood out side of the tank. I think there were 18 baptized, 3 of which were from our hall (Nantun).
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| Baptism Pool |
Some cool stats from today were: for the morning session there were 1530 in attendance. Of those 340 were regular pioneers and 52 were special pioneers.
This sister sat next to Hannah and helped us every once and a while if we didn't catch the scripture. They talked for about 15 min after the assembly, and only in Chinese. The sister was really encouraging. She kept saying how much she appreciated foreigners working so hard to preach in Chinese. That it built her up, and helped her continue in her preaching work. They exchanged information so we can visit her in her congregation.
This Brother and Sister sat in front of us. After the assembly I talked to him for a long time, he got the truth in Wisconsin when he was attending school. He was so nice and spoke English very well.
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| Brother and Sister Zhang |
I will try to publish some video of the baptism later right now our internet is running to slow to do so.
Love Phil & Hannah
This sister sat next to Hannah and helped us every once and a while if we didn't catch the scripture. They talked for about 15 min after the assembly, and only in Chinese. The sister was really encouraging. She kept saying how much she appreciated foreigners working so hard to preach in Chinese. That it built her up, and helped her continue in her preaching work. They exchanged information so we can visit her in her congregation.
This Brother and Sister sat in front of us. After the assembly I talked to him for a long time, he got the truth in Wisconsin when he was attending school. He was so nice and spoke English very well.
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